Nottingham-based SFN (Search for the Next) has characterised its novel transistor-based logic, and claims that it matches CMOS performance even when made in older fabs. It would “enable chip designers to produce ICs in older 180nm, and even one micron, geometry fabs with the equivalent performance of CMOS devices made in state-of-the-art plants”, according to the company. “For example, a ...
NAND prices are surging, reports TrendForce, with Q2 shipments of $5.775 billion, an 11.2% QoQ and over 30% YoY increase.
Mouser Electronics has availability of what is claimed to be the smallest transistor package on the market from Rohm Semiconductor. The VML0806 case type measures just 0.8mm × 0.6mm with a height of only 0.36mm. According to Rohm, problems related to internal element miniaturisation, bonding stability, package process accuracy, and surface mount technology had limited the smallest conventional transistors to ...
There was once a small country which believed in IC process technology.
It’s been an extraordinary couple of weeks for the European semiconductor industry. Three things happened:
Cavendish Kinetics has an answer to the the widening gap between actual mobile data rates and theoretically achievable data rates.
Is the US semiconductor industry reverting back to its early days with the East Coast becoming the new industry hub?
FD-SOI with metal gate last will be the winning process technology at 28nm and 20nm, with finfets proving to be a second-rate solution, says Professor Asen Asenov, professor of Electrical Engineering at Glasgow University who is founder and CEO of the leading statistical variablity company Gold Standard Simulations.
Russian semiconductor company Angstrem of Zelenograd near Moscow has licensed 90nm process technology from IBM and design software which will allow it to offer foundry services. Angstrem is trying to build a 110-130nm fab to house $300m worth of fab equipment which it bought from AMD in 2008. Sitronics/Mikron, also of Zelenograd, is to double production with a new 90nm ...
The process technology gap between the top foundries and the others is ‘enormous’, says IC Insights. Only four companies out of 18 pure-play foundries can make leading edge ICs and only four others have a 90nm capability. ‘In 2012, TSMC and Globalfoundries were in high-volume production of devices using 28nm feature sizes,’ says IC Insights, ‘the process technology gap between ...
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